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A major outage at Australia’s largest telecommunications company has led to the cancellation of train services, left thousands of customers without mobile coverage and sparked an investigation into unconnected emergency calls. Telstra chief financial officer Michael Ackland apologized for the issue which began at 4.30am local time on Wednesday and affected “some mobile calls and
CNN — High speed trains have proved their worth across the world over the past 50 years. It’s not just in reducing journey times, but more importantly, it’s in driving economic growth, creating jobs and bringing communities closer together. China, Japan and Europe lead the way. So why doesn’t the United States have a high-speed rail